Class Notes

 Temporary Contracts

-Postindustrial landscape

-Reliance on information processing

-Service industry focus

-Globally integrated market

-Mobile capital/ credit

-Speed/ mobility/ malleability

-Planned obsolescence/ disposable assets/ flexible accumulations

-Consuming relationships

-Objects in culture/ objects of consumption and public realms vs private realms

-Temporary value

-Client shareholder gratification/ intergenerational responsibility

-Commercial/ critical –equally consumable (architizer)… aspire to be ‘of the moment’

-Sophisticated market research; new technology; cultural critics

What responsibility does corporate North American have to the general public in this regard? Should large companies be held more accountable or are we as consumers simply to be the only ones held accountable for our actions.

-Temporary contracts: Minimal commitment culture attitude.

What if Walmart was no longer allowed to systematically take advantage of and destroy the economic base of small communities?

-This would be a counter-cultural movement

Nomadic Existence and lifestyle

Is a contemporary nomadic existence necessarily a negative way of life?

-No it creates a lot of jobs

Is it possible to live the lifestyle of a way of life?

What are the sustaining values of today?

Is it possible to live the lifestyle of a nomad as a collective, moving an entire city to find fresh resources?

An example is Dongdaemoon market-seoul Korea [Tower of Mega shod]

-They created a collective new paradime organizationally co-operable

Practice

-Networking/ intuitive/ situated/ uncharted

-Customization/ standardization

-Public relations

-Professional territories

-Engineering/ marketing/ construction/ management/ developer

_how can we or should we even do it?

           

We looked at three firms:

MY MASS STUFF

MY – Mystudio

Mass – Massstudios

STUFF – Studies on Transformative Urban Forms And Fields

Examples:

-Steel Pattern Partition prototype

-My studio-loop chair

-One study propagates the further study

-My studio hover

-Massstudio – art trad

-Goganhyme at new york

-Massstudies – torque house